Bug#297090: console-tools: despite setting console to utf-8, install still fails
On Sath, 2005-02-26 at 19:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-55 Severity: important the little notes in the file are making the --unpack stage pukes, therefore installation fails horribly. tar fails with ?inmvalid argument?. i tried installing sid's tar, but it still fails. please fix this. cute and everything that you have a file with a unicode name, but when it breaks things on certain systems, it isn't so cute anymore ;). Which file system is this on? XFS and NTFS filesystems may be configured so that they use preset character sets (e.g. ISO-8859-1). This breaks the Unix filesystem semantics which state that the only significant bytes in a filename are '\0' and '/'; all else are just bytes, to be interpreted by the user. use the charset options on XFS and NTFS filesystems with care, and only on /home, etc. directories where you know that no system software will be installed, and you as sysadmin can configure all software accessing that directory to act accordingly, and only then when you need to share that directory OS's other than Linux. If this is that bug, please tell me and I can close this report. Else, please send me a copy of /etc/fstab and I will fix it ASAP. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages console-tools depends on: ii console-common 0.7.49Basic infrastructure for text cons ii debconf1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libconsole 1:0.2.3dbs-56 Shared libraries for Linux console ii sysvinit 2.86.ds1-1System-V like init -- no debconf information Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#297090: console-tools: despite setting console to utf-8, install still fails
Le dim 2005-02-27 a 05:42:49 -0500, Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: On Sath, 2005-02-26 at 19:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-55 Severity: important the little notes in the file are making the --unpack stage pukes, therefore installation fails horribly. tar fails with ?inmvalid argument?. i tried installing sid's tar, but it still fails. please fix this. cute and everything that you have a file with a unicode name, but when it breaks things on certain systems, it isn't so cute anymore ;). Which file system is this on? XFS and NTFS filesystems may be configured so that they use preset character sets (e.g. ISO-8859-1). This breaks the Unix filesystem semantics which state that the only significant bytes in a filename are '\0' and '/'; all else are just bytes, to be interpreted by the user. use the charset options on XFS and NTFS filesystems with care, and only on /home, etc. directories where you know that no system software will be installed, and you as sysadmin can configure all software accessing that directory to act accordingly, and only then when you need to share that directory OS's other than Linux. If this is that bug, please tell me and I can close this report. Else, please send me a copy of /etc/fstab and I will fix it ASAP. proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/sda2 / jfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda3 /boot ext2defaults0 2 /dev/sda8 /home jfs defaults0 2 /dev/sda9 /tmpjfs defaults0 2 /dev/sda4 /usrjfs defaults0 2 /dev/sda7 /usr/local jfs defaults0 2 /dev/sda6 /varjfs defaults0 2 /dev/sda5 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 JFS in this case. i don't have iocharset=utf8 set as you can see. -- We can use symlinks of course... syslogd would be a symlink to syslogp and ftpd and ircd would be linked to ftpp and ircp... and of course the point-to-point protocol paenguin. -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the penguin Linux logo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#297090: console-tools: despite setting console to utf-8, install still fails
Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-55 Severity: important the little notes in the file are making the --unpack stage pukes, therefore installation fails horribly. tar fails with ?inmvalid argument?. i tried installing sid's tar, but it still fails. please fix this. cute and everything that you have a file with a unicode name, but when it breaks things on certain systems, it isn't so cute anymore ;). -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages console-tools depends on: ii console-common 0.7.49Basic infrastructure for text cons ii debconf1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libconsole 1:0.2.3dbs-56 Shared libraries for Linux console ii sysvinit 2.86.ds1-1System-V like init -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
